Weakness in italy and spain. When it comes to the treasury yields, this is what were watching closely, the tenyear is trading at 2. 433 should we be doing a Weather Board . Like a freezing cold Weather Board . I saw this morning that 90 of the United States is freezing or below a third of the continental United States, the lower 48, are actually below zero. As was predicted. Its cold because its warm. Dont do this as a Global Warming thing. No, no, because only weather that proves Global Warming like every brush fire is Global Warming. Every drought. Every flood. Thats all Global Warming. You didnt see the day after tomorrow. It got freezing. If the atmosphere traps more heat, you would think it would not be as cold you know what sorkin, dont act like you studied this i have studied this what i have as it happens, i have. Sorkin, if it was 40 degrees, and it was a very warm winter, would that be indicative of Global Warming or just answer that question. If it was unseasonably warm, wou
Today on the nomination of the middle district of tennessee court, about to limit debate set forth by 30 00 easter. Live Senate Coverage now on cspan2. Senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal god, abide with us when other helpers fail and comfort flees strengthen our senators with your might. Provide them with a perseverance that completes the task, a courage to face every fear, and a fidelity that brings glory to your name. Help them to live such exemplary lives that they will infect others with the contagion of love of you, lord, give them the gentleness and symmetry to bring healing to our nation and world. Whatever they do, may they do it for you, the author and finisher of our destinies. We pray in your strong name. Amen. The presiding officer please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justic
Lawmakers have been talking about whether to renew the deferred action for the Arrivals Program which President Trump ended last year. The program shielded more than 7,000 people from deportation and gave them the right to work legally in the u. S. A number of republicans spoke about the program from immigration policy and Border Security. We will hear from others. Senator grassley chairs the judiciary committee. I ask unanimous consent i dont know whether it is four, five or sixe, but some senators would like to have a colloquy ou the issue of deferred action childhood arrivals, and i would ask that p we could have that privilege. Sl without objection. I rise toda arise today withy colleagues to offer marks about the current status and negotiations on the deferred action for childhood Arrivals Programs as it is known here in the United States senate. Unfortunately, it isnt closer still to the legitimate and fair deal that accomplishes the two goals for us all to promote and protect th
Highlights. I spoke about this to some extent before, but a lot of progress made on vision zero, including some specific projects, like the work in golden gate park, which is part of the mayors executive mayor lees executive directive, as well as a number of protects bike lanes below. Thats the image i made reference to in my directors report, a very powerful and compelling outreach effort in order to really make tangible what were talking about when were talking about vision zero. Safety on muni remains a top priority, as well. And within goal one, there are a number of things, and i think john made reference to some of the Technology Improvements that have safety elements, we heard and by general public total about the el taraval, which has been legislated by this board last year. Only to flag and acknowledge that the muni collision rate is trending absolutely in the wrong direction. Theres a lot of work that johns team and transit have done collectively with the Safety Division and
Plan goal. And the trends are related only to this current audit period. So actually for all of these, ill just note that any metric that ends in a. 1 is a Key Performance indicator. These are ones that people can play with online. So in terms of the goal related plan, crimes are down, which is a positive trend. And im not going to go through all of these. You can find them in the report, which ill remind you guys later. So in the second goal, overall Customer Satisfaction is up, and for reference, a 2. 5 is a neutral score. So this is actually 3. 2. Its pretty good. Gaps and bunching refers to multiple buses all coming at once, and then having a gap between service. Really influences peoples daytoday feeling with muni, and its a big deal. So during this term, gaps improved, but bunching got worse. So the city charter calls for sfmta to be on time system wide at least 85 of the time, and although the ontime performance did improve over the cycle, we are still short of that 85 target. O